Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 4:43 PM - A China Eastern passenger plane was forced to abort its descent into Wuhan airport when air traffic controllers fell asleep on the job, according to a new internal investigation.

A transcript of the July 8 incident by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) was released Tuesday.

In it, it was revealed the crew of flight MU2528 from China's Sanya, Hainan region made several attempts to contact air traffic controllers in both English and Chinese prior to landing. The calls were ignored.